1881, Auguste Renoir, Bouquet of Chrysanthemums -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

From the museum label: Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. "When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas," he told the writer Georges Rivière. "I would not do this with a figure painting since there I would care about destroying the work."

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